The old people seemed to sense Zhuo Yu's presence. One of the "grandmothers" forcibly raised her withered and thin arms, lifted her face, and revealed a pair of cloudy eyes that had been covered with white haze.

The eyeballs are the only part of her body that can move freely, and she is moving around anxiously at this moment, until "Grandma Grandma" saw Zhuo Yu who was a few steps away, and suddenly squeezed out a squeaky meow from her throat. Crying and howling, she was panting while crying, and she seemed to be out of breath, but she was sobbing non-stop while hanging on, making Liu Jingyun and others nearly suffocate.

Zhuo Yu took a few steps forward, gently stroked the top of the old man's head with few hairs left, stroked it with his index finger to his forehead, and nodded.

The old man became even more excited immediately. She held Zhuo Yu's hand and pressed it to her wrinkled cheeks, like an orphaned child who finally found her relatives and was venting her long-term mourning and helplessness.

"Is she... acting like a baby with Zhuo Yu?"

Liu Jingyun felt goosebumps all over her body, and seeing a "monster" who was older than a centenarian acting like a baby to a young and beautiful man made her feel indescribably absurd and perverted.

Zhuo Yu looked at the weeping elders in a daze, his eyes showed some tolerance and kindness, and he asked softly, "Grandma, how old are you?"

"Can't remember, can't remember."

"Is everything okay?"

"It was bad before, but it's good now."

The old people stared at Zhuo Yu's figure with greedy eyes, more obsessed than lovers in love, but Zhuo Yu looked at them, not like looking at people, but looking at the deeper existence through the surface .

This made Zhuo Yu's heart more gentle, and the curvature of the corner of his mouth never let go.He remembered his reason for coming, so he asked.

"Grandparents, do you know what the mark on my forehead means?"

Zhuo Yu pointed to the white Φ symbol on his forehead, and his tone was quite peaceful, which also stopped the old people from crying, and the old man who saw Zhuo Yu first spoke.

"It's better for you to find out by yourself, and visit Cistanche County more." The old man reminded with an old voice like a saw: "Just be careful at night, this location is remote, and there are wild animals at night."

"Okay." Zhuo Yu smiled at the elders, then turned around calmly and walked towards his companions.

Everyone had complicated expressions, but they didn't say anything. After meeting Li Tiancheng when they stepped out of the threshold, Liu Jingyun opened up the conversation: "Zhuo Yu, aren't you afraid? I don't dare to approach just by looking at it."

At this moment, Zhuo Yu got out of the stable and loving state just now, he paused, looked at his left hand that touched the old man's forehead: "I don't know, it doesn't feel that scary, it's just old people, don't will be more terrifying than wild beasts."

Luo Musheng looked at him inquisitively, and then looked at Li Tiancheng, who was implying excitement, that Li Tiancheng also showed the same frenzied expression. He obviously hid it well before seeing the old man, but now he seems to be unable to suppress it. The heart of admiration is the same, and even the eyes are straight.

"It's weird." Luo Musheng touched his arm: "I always feel that I should be the one who should use the material, and I will be able to make movies here in the future."

"Movie?" Zhuo Yu suddenly looked at Luo Musheng, feeling that these two words were harsh for no reason.

"Oh, I'm studying directing." Luo Musheng pushed down his glasses: "Don't you think this place is very suitable for filming? And you look good, have you considered participating in the audition to become an actor or something? It depends on your appearance , definitely can..."

"Forget it." Zhuo Yu interrupted him, "Compared to being a puppet in the script like an actor, I still prefer being a writer and controlling everyone's ending."

"Tsk tsk, it sounds like you have a lot of desire for control." Luo Musheng and Zhuo Yu made a few jokes, and the uneasy atmosphere just now loosened a lot.

Luo Xiaoou pointed to the shop not far away: "What is that?"

Li Tiancheng came back to his senses, and immediately led the crowd towards there: "This is our specialty shop. If you want to talk about specialty products, you can see for yourself."

Zhuo Yu looked at the shelf, and saw dense black sticks tied up with ropes and hung on it, which seemed to be formed after drying, very similar to Chinese medicinal materials, and Zhuo Yu immediately thought of Cistanche deserticola.

In order to gain a deeper understanding of the Goddess of the Earth, he has researched a lot of information. For example, "Chagangaoya" means Cistanche, and the huge divine flower that looks like a purple pine cone under his feet is also Cistanche. , desert ginseng, the price is high, is a parasitic plant.Because of its endangered status and rarity, people often steal it.

As for the efficacy of the medicine, the biggest effect is to aphrodisiac, and after drying, it also fits the stereotype of an aphrodisiac.

Hearing someone coming, a lady boss who was nearly fifty years old and still charming came out of the shop swinging her waist. The moment she saw Zhuo Yu, her eyes were straightened, as if she had never seen such a handsome young man, showing a smile on her face. I laughed foolishly.

"Sister-in-law Xu." Li Tiancheng coughed warningly, "Guests want to see our specialties."

The woman known as Mrs. Xu then withdrew her naked/naked gaze, and took out a few slices of Cistanche: "The best specialty here is this Cistanche. It prolongs life, strengthens the body, and Our water and soil are good, and the Cistanche that comes out is different from other places. Come and try a piece.”

While she was speaking, she held up the cistanche tablet and wanted to stuff it into everyone's mouths, but the three of Luo Musheng and the others reacted very quickly, and there was no chance for Mrs. Xu to touch her.

"No, no." Luo Musheng laughed dryly, "I don't like Chinese medicine, it's too bitter."

Mrs. Xu put her hips on her hips and laughed: "Hahaha, bitter? This is not an ordinary thing. You will know it after you taste it. It is the most exquisite delicacy in the world. It is much more delicious than the matsutake old abalone. Don't you want to try it?"

Luo Musheng stared at the cistanche slice, for some reason, as if he really smelled the aroma Mrs. Xu mentioned, he actually swallowed.Luo Xiaoou and Liu Jingyun were also a little eager to try, as if they were attracted by the delicious food.

Aunt Xu laughed again when she saw this, and forced the Cistanche to his mouth.

"Sister-in-law, how much is the whole root." Zhuo Yu's words interrupted her movement, her eyes lit up, she threw the slice aside, grabbed the thickest cistanche and handed it to Zhuo Yu: "No money."

"No money?" Zhuo Yu looked at her suspiciously.

"Cough cough." Li Tiancheng coughed twice again.

Only then did Aunt Xu sigh, and asked Zhuoyu for 100 yuan symbolically.

After Zhuo Yu finished shopping, she forcibly dragged her companion out of the shop.

Luo Musheng was still haunted by dreams, but he still had reason, and suddenly remembered Li Tiancheng's introduction, and found a strange point.

"Wait, don't they believe in the Earth Mother Goddess? Cistanche is the incarnation of the Earth Mother Goddess, and this thing is endangered. According to common sense, it shouldn't be used to protect Cistanche. Why are they selling it to tourists? They want outsiders to eat it too. Their 'god'?"

Luo Musheng didn't shy away from Li Tiancheng when he said this, Li Tiancheng explained: "Maybe other places are more endangered, but here we are everywhere, very common, and the people in our county are simple and honest, they all survived by eating cistanche. So here in our country, tourists who eat cistanche become a family with us.”

Listening to this explanation, Liu Jingyun always felt something was wrong, and a strange feeling lingered in her heart.

She changed the topic: "By the way, we have been walking for so long, why are there so few pedestrians on the road?"

"Everyone doesn't like to go shopping. They've lived here for so long, so there's nothing to see." Li Tiancheng said with a smile, "They're all in their own house."

While listening to their chat, Zhuo Yu looked at the plastic sheet in his hand.

After seeing his grandpa and grandma, and buying special products, the next step is to visit the temple in Cistanche County. He put away the paper slips, and the further he walked, the more he could hear the faint sound of silk and bamboo.

Zhuo Yu didn't know what was going on until Li Tiancheng turned a corner and exposed the huge building to everyone.

The guard of honor that greeted him at the gate of the county at that time was beating gongs and drums, the reeds and bamboo reeds were ringing non-stop, and the dragon dance team was tossing hard at the gate of the temple. The expressions of the county residents were all the same, with exaggerated big smiles , His head was covered with sweat baked by the scorching sun.

"This..." Luo Musheng was taken aback.

"Today is a festival in the county." Li Tiancheng said.

"What festival?"

"Welcoming the God Festival." Li Tiancheng glanced at Zhuo Yu.

But Zhuo Yu was observing this ancient building. Most of the houses in Cistanche County have blue tiles, black bricks and white walls, as if covered with a layer of light-colored filter, but this temple is different, with bright purple walls and silver paint. The tiles are so bright that they don't fit in the whole town, and on the plaque of the temple, Zhuo Yu saw the symbol on his forehead.

A shocking sense of familiarity made Zhuo Yu ignore the crowd beating gongs and drums, and walked towards the hall.

Seeing that Zhuo Yu had entered the hall, the guard of honor immediately stopped the music, threw the dragon aside, and hurriedly followed in. The three of Luo Musheng were also tourists, but they felt that they were being treated differently at this time.

The three looked at each other and followed helplessly.

To their surprise, there were actually people in this hall, and there were quite a few of them. Most of them were young people with low brows and pleasing eyes, kneeling on both sides of the hall, and some were middle-aged people. They were all disabled without exception, or some With a strange disease, his face is different from ordinary people, just like the skinny man he saw just now.

Looking up again, they were deeply shocked.

As Han people, they have seen the most temples, which are full of statues of Buddhism and Taoism. The Buddhist Bodhisattvas are kind and kind, and the Taoist immortals are domineering and upright. But they have never seen anyone who can Move the sculpture of a large flower to the main hall of the temple for worship.

The giant cistanche is like a pine cone, six or seven meters high, with tens of thousands of purple egg-shaped flower buds embedded in it, painted bright purple, the flower buds are stacked together, densely dotted, not only not beautiful, but also has a kind of people The nausea of ​​trying to phobia, blinking again, the tens of thousands of buds are like purple eyes, shaking in confusion, staring at everyone in the hall.

It is no exaggeration, as long as Luo Musheng stared at this giant flower for more than 1 minute, he would feel dizzy and dizzy. He felt that the buds were twisting continuously, and the whole cistanche was stretched out on the throne as if alive.

"Chagan Gaoya..." Zhuo Yu let out a sigh, and walked towards this maddening giant flower step by step.

He stood still at the bottom of the giant flower, and stretched out his hand to caress these egg-shaped flower buds, as if he was stroking the face of his lover.

"So you really look like this."

Zhuo Yu murmured, in his eyes, this giant flower was smiling at him.

The man's statue is lifelike, his silver hair stands tall and hangs over his shoulders, the morning dew hangs on his dark skin, and finally hides at his waist, Zhuo Yu feels the dew and looks down, he has already met this man in his dream He did the same action countless times, he didn't care that this was a public place, and he didn't care that there were hundreds of living people staring at him.

"Honey, you actually exist." Zhuo Yu joked to the statue, "It was only when King Zhou despised the statue of Nuwa that it caused disaster. Now I want to do something even worse than King Zhou. Do you agree?" ?"

The giant flower's tens of thousands of eyes blinked, which seemed to be the illusion of all the onlookers, but in Zhuo Yu's eyes, the statue was really smiling at him.

"If you agree, will you punish me?"

Zhuo Yu clasped the man's shoulders with both hands, put his weight on the man's body, then stood on tiptoe, whispering softly to the side of the statue's face.

"But I'm not afraid, I've been looking for you for too long."

Zhuo Yu kissed the statue's lips.

The county citizens spontaneously formed a human wall, blocked Zhuo Yu tightly, turned their backs and closed their eyes, as if they were guarding some solemn scene, and no one could destroy it, while the young people kneeling beside them watched obsessively. Zhuo Yu, wished that the one kissing Zhuo Yu passionately now was not the statue, but themselves.

"Priest..."

"The priest is really back..."

People were jumping for joy, eyes full of love and admiration.Only those disabled middle-aged people were terrified. They couldn't believe why that handsome man wanted to make out with the strange flower statue.But when he thought about the reason why he came to Cistanche County, he felt that everything was so fucking reasonable.

The three of Luo Musheng couldn't see what was going on inside the human wall, but they also felt that the scene in front of them was a bit ominous.

"Could it be a cult/religion..." Luo Xiaoou tugged on his brother's sleeve: "What kind of place is our hometown?"

Liu Jingyun was worried about Zhuo Yu, she wanted to rush into the crowd of county residents to bring Zhuo Yu out, but was held down by Li Tiancheng.

"Aren't you here to travel? It's God's Day now, please enjoy the festive atmosphere here quietly." Li Tiancheng looked at the statue with some envy, he clapped his hands, and countless county residents came out from the apse, carrying two large buckets .

They picked up the bowl, took out the black medicinal soup in the bucket, and there were many slices of cistanche in it, and poured it into the mouths of those middle-aged people without any explanation, while the young people took the initiative to pick up the bowl, for fear that they would drink more than they wanted. There were few others, and they kept chewing the cistanche, making a creaking sound.

"The blood of the village is too thick and too old, so some people give birth to children, raise them for a few years, and then send them outside Cistanche County. When they grow up, they will naturally return to the village with their spouses from outside." Li Tiancheng pointed out. Referring to those middle-aged people who were force-fed: "They are all descendants of Cistanche County."

"As for these young people, they come from relatively noble backgrounds and don't want to go to the outside world. They have stayed in the village and waited for the festival to welcome the gods."

Li Tiancheng didn't care about the feedback from the passengers. He said to himself: "We have been waiting for 100 years for the Festival of the Gods. These young people are really lucky. They just caught up with them. Unlike Wang Er Manzi, who has waited for decades but never came, sits on the threshold and stares at my inn every day."

He took a bowl of cistanche soup, and smiled eagerly at the three of them: "How about it, do you want to try it too?"

Luo Musheng and Luo Xiaoou took a few steps back together, pulled Liu Jingyun and ran, running non-stop until the temple could no longer be seen.

"Hey! Zhuo Yu is still there!" Liu Jingyun yelled, "Let me go!"

"Fool!" Luo Musheng hated iron and steel: "Don't you think Zhuo Yu is the one who is the most wrong!"

"Ah? So what, he is just a tourist like us!" Liu Jingyun frowned and looked towards the direction of the temple.

"Forget it, don't think about him now, let's pack up our bags and get out of here quickly, if we stay in this kind of place any longer, it's simply a brain problem."

Luo Musheng looked at the sky: "It gets dark early here, it will be dark at four or five o'clock, there is not much time, hurry up!"

Liu Jingyun's eyes widened: "Are we able to leave if we want? When we entered the county, all three of us fell asleep, and we didn't know the way to leave here, and there is a prairie outside, are you serious?"

"The grassland is also safer than here."

The three of them communicated all the way, and quickly ran back to the inn, but what they didn't expect was that there was an unexpected person sitting in the inn hall.

"Zhuo Yu?!" Liu Jingyun screamed.

Zhuo Yu smiled and waved his hands: "Yo, you're back so late."

"You, aren't you... aren't you in the temple?" Luo Xiaoou's voice became unstable, and he looked at Zhuo Yu in horror.

But at this moment, a flock of black birds sat on the nearby ancient trees, singing loudly, and the sky darkened immediately.The sky in the prairie became extremely fast, and after a while, the gentle light disappeared, and the entire inn was extremely dark, emitting a faint musty smell.

"Huh?" Zhuo Yu tilted his head in doubt: "Temple? Did you go to the temple?"

"Yes, you are with us..." Liu Jingyun stuttered as she described.

"You guys are sleepy." Zhuo Yu spread his hands, "I never left the inn, I was exhausted from traveling and traveling, so I rested here for a day."

There was a "buzz" in the minds of the three of them.

Then that Zhuo Yu who was shopping and sightseeing with them just now, who is it?

"It's easy to have hallucinations if you don't rest well." Zhuo Yu smiled: "Let's go, go and have a good sleep, and you won't talk nonsense when you wake up."

He turned around and wanted to lead the three of them to the back room.

At this moment, the sky is completely dark.

With the erratic red light of the lantern outside the window pane, Liu Jingyun noticed with sharp eyes that there seemed to be something twisting under Zhuo Yu's feet, as if...

Roots?

Numerous vein-like bulging roots protruded from the trousers, moving around as if they had life. Suddenly, there was a strange creaking sound, and a mouse ran past the wall, but it was poked straight into it by the roots in just half a second. The abdominal cavity, after a while, became a piece of mouse skin.

Liu Jingyun broke out in a cold sweat.

As an ordinary female college student, it was the first time for her to face the incomprehensible fear.

Liu Jingyun took out an eyebrow trimming knife secretly hidden in her boots. She didn't understand why she suddenly had a hobby of hiding blades, but at this moment, holding the blade was like holding endless courage.

She stood still, not taking a step forward.

"You're not Zhuo Yu, who are you?!"

The author has something to say: Friends: The attack of this dungeon seems to have a strong X ability, and it can also strengthen the yang.

I:? ? ? (wiping sweat)

感谢在2022-08-3020:48:18~2022-08-3120:05:58期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: LEI1;

Thanks to the little angels who threw the landmines: 1 尐汜 and [-] Jiu;

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